37 Jains to become monk in Surat this December
September 08, 2014
Ahmedabad, 8 September 2014
As many as 37 persons, 14 of them gents and 23 ladies will take diksha , leave worldly life and become Jain monk on 1 December in Surat.
Jain monks Jinchandrasuri and Yogtilaksuri announced muhurt(date and time) of diksha in presence of over 200 Jain monks and hundreds of devotees at Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad.
Out of 37 who are going to become monk, 12 are from Surat while others are mainly from Ahmedabad, Halol, Bhabhar, Radhanpur, Navsari and Mumbai.
A 23-year-old Rishabh Doshi, students of Automobile engineering in LD Engineering college in Ahmedabad said he took decision to become a monk after reading Vijay Yogitilaksurishwarji’s book Jainshasan ni diksha. He said he believes that real happiness lies in purity of soul and not in physical things. One more person from Ahmedabad who is going to take diksha is 50-year-old Bharat Shah. He will become monk with his two sons 14-year-old Dip Shah and 16-year-old Sanyam Shah.
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